Review: 'The West Wing' reunion brings the fight to Trump. And it doesn't even name him
Just after midnight Thursday, less than a month from Election Day, and with voting already underway across the country, HBO Max began streaming "A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote," a splendidly executed restaging of an old episode in support of Michelle Obama's nonpartisan, nonprofit group dedicated to getting people to the polls. There is, by definition, nothing less partisan than encouraging everyone to vote, though paradoxically it has become a partisan issue, as most everything has these days, given that one party traditionally benefits from turnout, while the other has been working to suppress it.
"We understand that some people don't fully appreciate the benefit of unsolicited advice from actors," says Bradley Whitford, who played White House Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman, introducing the hour, but "we feel that at a time like this the risk of appearing obnoxious is too small a reason to stay quiet if we can get even one new voter to vote."
Even before the election entered the home stretch, the streaming screen has been
